Am 29.07.2013 um 15:46 schrieb "Esteban A. Maringolo" <emaring...@gmail.com>:
> Hi all, > > Is it a good practice to use the OID value (anInteger) as an > "external" identifier of your domain object? > > Let's suppose I have a collection of "People", as I save them in the > collection, it will automatically create OIDs for them. > > But let's suppose I want to map that person to a RESTful URI, would it > be "legal" to use its OID as part of the URI? > > E.g. mydomain.com/people/123456790 > where 123456790 is the OID value. > > I like OID/UUIDs, and I don't want to duplicate that logic in my app. > I think for your purpose OID will be fine but I'm not sure. I use UUIDs. You can instruct mongo to use a UUID instead of an OID. Works flawlessly. Norbert
